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July 2012

Last Saturday, I was lucky enough to participate in the first ‘Taste Gloucester’ walking tour. The tour highlighted downtown restaurants and food shops, with a dash of history thrown in.

Patrick Halloran, a Gloucester native who now serves as a fireman in Somerville, served as our tour guide. He graduated GHS in 2002 and his love for Gloucester was apparent as he proudly told us various tales from Gloucester’s history. Patrick himself was a highlight of the tour, with his friendly personality, sense of humor and depth of knowledge.

The tour started at the Fitz Hugh Lane House on Harbor Loop and ended at Turtle Alley Chocolates. Along the way we visited the Topside Grill, Virgilio’s, Intershell’s Fish Market and the Cape Ann Brewery—just to name a few. We enjoyed food samples prepared just for us, shopping opportunities, as well as great customer service by the local shopkeepers. At other stops we learned about the history of the Greasy Pole, the tale of Howard Blackburn, and the history of the Universalist Church. Check out the video for more details.

Who is this tour best suited for? Locals who want a fun and delicious way to spend a few hours; locals who have guests visiting; and tourists and newcomers who need an introduction to the downtown area. I guess what I am saying is, this tour is for everyone! J Personally, I had never shopped The Cave or Intershell’s Fish Market, and thanks to the tour, I will be a returning customer at both places.

Because the ‘Taste Gloucester’ tour is a new (and fun!) venture, it is sure to evolve and grow. Patrick, the owner, is open to feedback and ideas. For more information on how to sign up for a tour visit www.tastegloucester.com. Bon appetit!

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Hey Joey! I am a local Rockport/ Gloucester townie who is also blogging!! I have just recently started and have been trying to come up with ways to get more viewers when my best friend told me about your site. I have been off the "facebook" world for awhile so I hadn’t heard about your site, but I LOVE IT!! Its really great to see someone highlight the beautiful landscapes and local companies/ events that we all seem to forget about from time to time. Thank you for sharing, it really is a beautiful thing. I am a 21 year old who is trying to make a conscious effort to help guide the world to live in a more sustainable way. A lot of people think its really tough to "go green" but I am here to show & help others how easy it can be! When I graduated from Rockport High School in 2008, I attended The School Of Fashion Design on Newbury St. that fall, thinking I was going to be the next big designer. The Newbury St. style, with oversize bags, glasses, and coffees seemed to be the only thing that mattered and I got swept up into this "world" before I knew it. Bag after bag, coffee after coffee I soon realized, this isn’t what I’m supposed to be doing. These things aren’t helping anyone, who is really benefiting from my designs? I quickly learned that sewing and design were my passions, but the "fashion world" was not. I now work at a yoga center, a farm, and doing retail styling and merchandising to keep my creative juices flowing. I plan to attend North Shore Community College this fall for Environmental Science & Horticulture. I have traveled out west and stayed in an amazing "off the grid" sustainable living community called Earthships in Taos, NM which has opened my eyes so widely to the opportunities we all have to better our selves and our world and how simple it really is! My blog is a reflection of my journey and passions. It is called Fashion Heels to Carrot Peels and is a Do It Yourself based blog with a focus on sustainability. It has crafts & recipes that are both simple and sustainable. I wish you the best on your blogging journey & thank you for the inspiration http://fashionheelscarrotpeels.blogspot.com/warmest, Chyanna Stowell

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Hi Joey Took the Cape Ann Harbor Tours, lighthouse tour aboard the King Eider. It’s a two and a half hour tour that goes around the cape. It passes six lighthouses and is narrated. The tour is very scenic to say the least. Everyone had a good time and was friendly. Its a great tour for visitors as well as locals. These are a few of the pictures i took. Anthony Marks

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As many are aware, tonight at 7:30, WCVB Channel 5 Chronicle is airing an episode featuring Gloucester. This is in and of itself is fantastic; they also borrowed a bit my footage from my Greasy Pole Sunday film that I created for Good Morning Gloucester.

Special thanks are owed Joey for making Good Morning Gloucester the ‘go to place’ for people like Maggie Harper, the producer of Chronicle, to discover more about what makes the heart of our community beat. During the entire week of Fiesta, then followed by Independence Day events, GMG covered all, posting countless feature stories, schedule of events, photos, and videos.

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We still have a decent amount of ticket’s left, so please come and join us for this most worthwhile event. It promises to be a fantastic night of good food, great music and dancing and a lovely 3 hour tour on the Privateer IV. Lest I forget to mention, there will be a cash bar, a 50/50 cash raffle and a gift raffle with a ton of incredible items… To highlight some of the many items, we have a 2 night stay at the Deer Park Resort in N. Woodstock, N.H. 2 North Shore Theater Tickets, Passes for Canobie Lake Park, New England Aquarium, Cape Ann Whale Watch and many, many more awesome prizes and gift certificates to some of the best Restaurants around. It’s going to take some time to do the raffle segment of this evening because we have so many wonderful items to raffle away. You’ve nothing to lose and everything to gain (Not to mention putting that warm feeling in your belly for doing something so worthwhile) by joining us for this fun filled night on The Privateer IV. You can’t go wrong for 20 bucks. Come aboard! Boat leaves at 7:00 p.m.

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I was just in Gloucester this weekend.. still feeling the salt, sun and sand from Good Harbor Beach.

I have a remnant of a song floating in my head that includes a reference to Fitz Hugh Lane in it… do you or your bloggers know of a popular/contemporary song that includes his name? I don’t’ know if it is real or perhaps I took in too much sea water?

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Look for a brand new blue and orange gig in the harbor tomorrow. The Gloucester gig rowers got a new boat, the "Annie B", here being christened by Ann Banks and duly admired at Maritime Gloucester this evening.

Sailing School, Sandy Bay Rockport,Mass. From Anthony Marks

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Folks are discovering wonderful new things in the night sky by re-examining old photographic plates, historic astrophotos taken around the world and housed now at Harvard. At the July 13th meeting of the Gloucester Area Astronomy Club we will have Ed Los speaking to us about the Harvard photographic negative glass-plate archive, and the ongoing project of scanning some 500,000 plates into a database so people can examine them without having to go to Cambridge.

Ed’s presentation will cover the project itself as well as some of the historic and ongoing astronomical discoveries associated with the creation and re-examination of these photographic plates

Ed is one of the folks spearheading the effort to digitize the collection, and was instrumental in designing the software for the scanner.The Harvard collection is one of the largest and earliest glass plate astrophoto collections in the world – with photos of the night sky going all the way back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This talk is a great look back at astronomy history and not to be missed. The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club (http://www.gaac.us and http://www.facebook.com/gaacpage ) meets at St Paul Lutheran Church in Lanesville, at 8:00 on the second Friday of every month. There is no cost; all are welcome.

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As long as supplies last if any GMG folks want a bumper sticker but can't drop down the dock, just send a self addressed and stamped envelope longer then 7 and a half inches and I'll drop one in the mail for you.

Send the self addressed and stamped envelope to the dock at 95 East Main St Gloucester Ma 01930 care of Joey (put my name in big letters to make sure it gets to me)